Droid Overlay is a package manager and software repository for Google Android™ operating system. This project provides set of Arch Linux packages and means of their chroot-less installation on your device. Graphics and other advanced features are not supported yet.

Features

  • Linux in Android without chroot
  • ARM builds of many base packages
  • Ability to install unmodified Arch Linux ARM packages in chroot
  • No need to install full-blown Linux distribution — only necessary programs
  • FHS-compatible file tree, not overlapping with Android file hierarchy
  • Up-to-date PKGBUILDs of C and C++ cross-compilers

Project Samples

Package management Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup from ALARM repositories

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Categories

Software Distribution

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Android

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers

Programming Language

Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell Software Distribution Software

Registered

2012-08-17
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